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Had a brief chat with an engineering lecturer at a university today, he was feeling rather depressed by his students aiming for defence careers.
“When education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor.” - Paulo Freire
Argh, shit, I had a copy of Pedagogy of the Oppressed nearby that I coulda given him. I'm clearly off my "giving people books on a flimsy excuse" game.
Thanks, {S.T.E.M.|DARPA}!
Not that I want to say people should work for the mic, but at this point, are there any other jobs left?
Right, but I'm pointing towards the fact that's not an accident. the whole S.T.E.M. push was funded via DARPA and the worst companies around. Go back and look at like MAKER Space Tour type vids from Adam Savage (who is a reasonably decent guy) and they were all funded by Chevron and what have you.
STEM is a psyop fr (I did STEM)
oil, gas, pharmaceuticals, ICE, health insurance
Oh I almost forgot, AI and insider trading and crypto pump-and-dumps and gambling
Stahp!
You have to admit, it's kind of weird how whitey only goes to the moon when they're scared shitless of falling behind on missile technology, and need to pump up aerospace engineering enrollment numbers.
Hard to have the next Von Neumann when your country's children are malnourished and illiterate and a significant political force is mainly concerned with making sure they're even more indoctrinated and inoculated against reasoning.
Surely the brilliant failsons hiding in plain site just haven't applied themselves yet because we didn't do flashy enough billion dollar science stunts.
Someone get Andrew Yang on the line I have an idea for a unity ticket.
I talk to uni students on a regular basis and many of them unfortunately do not give a single fuck about what the companies they are trying to get hired at do. All the highest paying jobs in engineering are at ghoul factories like Google and Boeing, so if they aren't enthusiastic, they're at least making up whatever excuse they need to for it to be okay. Like "I'm just trying to be the data guy, I won't be working on missiles, so it's fine".
I know a number of former engineering and physics majors who changed major after developing a conscience. Most of them sefinitely don't care though. I have a comrade in aerospace engineering and they refer to their peers as "knowledgable but apathetic about their contribution to slaughter at best".